Dead Sea Scrolls Flashcards
1
Q
How many manuscripts were found at Qumran?
A
Approximately 930 individual
Dead Sea Scroll documents.
2
Q
What percentage were Biblical?
A
About 1/4 of the 930 individual Dead Sea Scrolls documents are biblical manuscripts.
3
Q
What made this find remarkable?
A
These copies of the biblical manuscripts were about 1,000 years older than the next oldest copies, which dated to the Middle Ages.
4
Q
How close to the writing of the originals were some of the manuscripts?
A
Some copies date to only two or three centuries from the date of writing.
